Giant Titanosaur Nesting Ground Discovered in Central India

Credits: Photos showing (A) an unhatched egg; (B) a nearly intact circular outline of a possibly unhatched egg; (C) a compressed egg with a hatching window (see arrow) and a few eggshells around the hatching window (circled); (D) an egg showing a curved outline; and (E) a deformed egg. (Image credit: Dhiman et al., 2023, PLOS ONE; (CC-BY 4.0)) This diagram shows the possible environment of the Lameta Formation. It’s likely that dinosaurs laid some, but not all, of their clutches close to the banks of lakes and ponds. Clutches laid close to the water were prone to frequent submergence and thus got buried under sediment and remained unhatched, whereas clutches laid away from the water could hatch, leading to broken eggshells. (Image credit: Dhiman et al., 2023, PLOS ONE; (CC-BY 4.0))